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I am content that is a blessing greater than riches and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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Yes, I had two strings to my bow both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
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Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.
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Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biographer is of great utility, as, by communicating such valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a more extensive service to mankind than the person whose life originally afforded the pattern.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
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When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.
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With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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